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I'm such a long way off learning corner comms. I think I need a good YouTube video.
I'm trying to figure them out for myself, sighted, like JanW did. It's hard. I really need a clear set of patterns or rules to follow, but I haven't found anything that sticks well enough that I can do it quickly without a long pause to think about it. I guess it will take time!
 
Just compete in the events you like. Write down your times, and next week the results will be up.

Here's the one I am doing now, and muchacho. Good job on sub 30 BTW muchacho!

Thank you both for the tips. I had never been to the Competition Forum. Now I have a problem... I'll want to compete all the time :)

Just did a fast try at 2x2 on the weekly comp but don't worry Marcel, I did not cheat with the 4th solve. I did it on yellow face on purpose to avoid that... and also had a terrible lockup in my CB 2x2 on that very solve, making it in fact the worst of my average.

My results

Not bad taking into account that I was nervous as if it was a real competition :)
I assume that for this comps, even if you don't have a proper timer you need to do a pick-up and throw of the cube, right?

Next week I'll try to do more events or maybe I can edit my post with additional events later this weekend. I will also try to enter the Race to sub-20 thread. I'm sure it will prove quite challenging.
 
Thank you both for the tips. I had never been to the Competition Forum. Now I have a problem... I'll want to compete all the time :)

Just did a fast try at 2x2 on the weekly comp but don't worry Marcel, I did not cheat with the 4th solve. I did it on yellow face on purpose to avoid that... and also had a terrible lockup in my CB 2x2 on that very solve, making it in fact the worst of my average.

My results

Not bad taking into account that I was nervous as if it was a real competition :)
I assume that for this comps, even if you don't have a proper timer you need to do a pick-up and throw of the cube, right?

Next week I'll try to do more events or maybe I can edit my post with additional events later this weekend. I will also try to enter the Race to sub-20 thread. I'm sure it will prove quite challenging.

Change format of your results for the same as Marcel. Mats will have an easier job to do when he counts the results.

BTW nice ao5 in 2x2. I'll try to make few solves today or tomorrow, but I'll have a comp this weekend, and most of my solves I do in Saturday and Sunday.
 
Change format of your results for the same as Marcel. Mats will have an easier job to do when he counts the results.

BTW nice ao5 in 2x2. I'll try to make few solves today or tomorrow, but I'll have a comp this weekend, and most of my solves I do in Saturday and Sunday.

Done. Thanks, it could have been so much better but cold hands (no warm-up), a couple of lock-ups and my lack of practise with picking up the cube didn't help much.
 
I'm trying to figure them out for myself, sighted, like JanW did. It's hard. I really need a clear set of patterns or rules to follow, but I haven't found anything that sticks well enough that I can do it quickly without a long pause to think about it. I guess it will take time!
I'm not exactly fast either, still pause to figure them out. Recognition and execution is currently at about 10-15s/3-cycle (not including the few seconds it takes for me to recall which stickers the letters in my memo refer to), sometimes slower if a really tricky case comes up or if I try to look for better options before executing. But for me it doesn't matter as much as I doubt I would be much faster at this point with any other system. Just hoping that I can improve my execution speed with comms at about the same pace I would improve it with OP. As you are already so fast, it will without doubt take some time to get comms up to the same speed.

It helped a lot when I got used to the R2 U R2 U' R2 alg in all it's 8 variants, to be able to perform it quickly for insertions at any corner, both up and down. Also helps to think through all possible insertions and decide which version will be done for each case. Some directions might for example be faster to sledgehammer than to do the regular 3 move way. This is not automatic for me either yet, but I'm hoping to eventually get to the point where I can focus my thinking entirely on how to set up the 3-cycle, without having to think about how to execute insertions.
 
Lot's of bld & 2x2 talk here ... I should really repeat my CLLs & do some avg of 100 :p

New 3x3 a12 PB today: 16.123 = 15.902, (13.688), (17.603), 15.301, 16.123, 16.206, 16.219, 16.642, 14.733, 17.091, 17.294, 15.714

2 weeks untill competition ...
 
I've been doing mainly OH and 2x2 practice in preparation for my competition this weekend. I've been hoping I will get a sub-5 avg on 2x2.

New 2x2 Ao12 pb today: 3.895 = (5.233), 3.633, 4.484, 4.683, 3.900, 4.483, 4.250, 3.435, 3.200, 3.683, 3.200, (2.834)

I got a 4.05 Ao12 two days ago also. These are crazy stupid and were both done without stackmat. Starting to think I should only count 2x2 pbs if stackmat.
 
Managed to squeeze in an AO12 this evening and my cross practice is paying off (sort of). First time I've had 2 sub 30s which included a 23.54 PB single. Unfortunately there were still far too many mistakes including solving a fast cross but with the cube upside down so white edges were around the yellow centre. Messed up a couple of PLLs too but I can see the progress.

Got a nice quick, but untimed, 3BLD solve at first attempt too using a couple of edge comms Mark showed me. They are becoming more natural now.
 
Thanks!

Reconstruction

R2 B2 D' F2 D' L2 D2 L2 U2 F2 D2 B U2 B D' R U2 F' R D' R2

y'
F' U' M U M' U2 L U' L' (9) // FB
U2 R U R M U M' U2 L' B' L R U R' U2 M U2 R U' R' (20) // SB
U2 F RU R' U' R U R' U' F' (11) // CMLL
U' M' U' M U' M U' M' U M' U' M U2 M U' M2 U' M2 U2 M' U2 M2 U2 M' (24)

64 STM

alg.cubing.net

I'm not sure if the last part is what I executed, I can't recall but it certainly felt shorter than that.

64 moves for an easy scramble is not very efficient.
 
First sub-20 single, it was a very nice scramble :D

19.511 R2 B2 D' F2 D' L2 D2 L2 U2 F2 D2 B U2 B D' R U2 F' R D' R2
Congrats! Nice 6-move Xcross!

I tried practicing that scramble a few times, executing the rest after the Xcross in the order I recognized everything the first time. Sad news is that I only barely got sub-25 for my 47 move solution, even when I knew what was to come. Still have some way to go...
 
Following your start:

U R' L U2 R L' // F2L 2
U' y R U' R' // F2L 3
U' L' U L U L' U L U' F R U R' F' // F2L 4 + OLL
R' U R' U' R' U' R' U R U R2 U2 // PLL + AUF

I've been reading this thread for weeks, it's so inspirational :D

Wow! That last F2L pair + OLL!!! How did that happen? :) Is it some sort of VLS alg or what!!!!?
 
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